Features page (browser and synthetic monitoring) — Checkly

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• Locations count Report an error

  “Run checks as often as every minute from 22+ global locations.”

• Check frequency browser Report an error

  “Browser Checks and Multistep Checks support intervals down to every 1 minute.”

• Check frequency API Report an error

  “API Checks can run as frequently as every 10 seconds.”

• Check types Report an error

  “Checkly has four check types in two categories. Browser-level: Browser Checks run Playwright scripts against your UI; Playwright Check Suites port your entire test project to production as a continuous monitor. API-level: API Checks assert on endpoint responses (status, payload, response time); Multistep Checks chain API calls to test complete backend workflows”

• Runtime playwright Report an error

  “Checkly is built on Playwright from the ground up. Browser Checks, Playwright Suites, and Multistep Checks all use the Playwright API your team already knows. No adapter, no DSL, no vendor lock-in.”

• Browsers Report an error

  “Runs actual Chromium, Firefox, or WebKit, not a simulation.”

• Mobile emulation Report an error

  “Test across Chromium, Firefox, WebKit, and mobile viewports. Catch browser-specific regressions in production.”

• Failure artifacts Report an error

  “Every failed check auto-captures a full screenshot, video recording, and Playwright trace. Debug in seconds, not hours.”

• AI root cause Report an error

  “Rocky AI analyzes the failure and returns a plain-language root cause summary.”

• Import existing tests Report an error

  “Port your Playwright suite directly. Custom dependencies, shared fixtures, and StorageState all work. No rewrites, no adapters.”

• Private locations Report an error

  “Private Locations let you deploy a lightweight Checkly agent inside your own infrastructure: VPCs, staging environments, or on-premises networks.”

• Monitoring as code Report an error

  “Use the Checkly CLI to write monitors as TypeScript alongside your application code. Version control them, review them in PRs, and deploy them automatically”

• Status pages Report an error

  “Auto-open incidents and notify subscribers the moment a check fails. No manual updates.”

• Not apm rum Report an error

  “You want performance data from real user traffic. That is real user monitoring, which Checkly does not do.”

• Not apm rum Report an error

  “You need host metrics, log search, or code-level APM profiling. Run an observability backend alongside Checkly.”

• Ondemand triggers Report an error

  “All check types can also be triggered on demand via CLI, API, or CI/CD, for instant validation during deployments.”

• Slack Report an error

  “Slack Alerts land in your team channels with the failing check, location, and error attached.”

• Pagerduty Report an error

  “PagerDuty Trigger incidents and manage on-call rotations.”

• Opsgenie Report an error

  “OpsGenie Route alerts to the right team automatically based on your escalation policies.”

• Datadog Report an error

  “Datadog Forward metrics to your observability platform for unified dashboards.”

• Grafana Report an error

  “Grafana Chart check results in Grafana next to the rest of your metrics.”

• Terraform Report an error

  “Terraform Manage your monitoring infrastructure as code with our Terraform provider.”

• Honeycomb Report an error

  “Honeycomb Send monitoring events to Honeycomb for deep observability and debugging.”

• Pulumi Report an error

  “Pulumi Define monitors using your favorite programming language with Pulumi.”

• Ms teams Report an error

  “MS Teams Receive alerts directly in Microsoft Teams channels.”

• Firehydrant Report an error

  “FireHydrant Open a FireHydrant incident automatically when a check fails.”

• Alert channels Report an error

  “Slack, PagerDuty, email, or webhook. Every alert ships with the screenshot, trace, and AI root cause.”

• Location regions Report an error

  “Public locations span the Americas, EMEA, and Asia Pacific.”

• AI agents Report an error

  “Enable AI agents to create and manage monitors for you”

• Positioning Report an error

  “Checkly runs standard Playwright on flat, predictable plans.”

• Public locations number Report an error

  “22 public locations, plus private locations”

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